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Electroconvulsive Therapy

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), or shock therapy, remains a critical biomedical intervention for severe, treatment-resistant depression. While its origins can be traced back to Hippocrates' observations that malaria-induced convulsions alleviated mental illness, modern ECT has evolved significantly from its earlier, more primitive applications. First introduced in 1938 by Ugo Cerletti and his colleagues, ECT involves inducing controlled seizures using electrical currents. In its early...

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Determining Electroconvulsive Therapy Response With Machine Learning

Christopher C Abbott¹, Dyani Loo¹, Jing Sui²

¹Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque.

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|May 5, 2016

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